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The crypto ecosystem is accelerating at the intersection of technological innovation and user-driven demand. Over the past few years, infrastructure has made remarkable progress: scaling solutions like modular blockchains, validity rollups, and layer-2 frameworks have progressed from whitepaper concepts to production-grade infrastructure, lowering costs and increasing throughput in ways that were unthinkable five years ago. Yet, alongside these advancements, the memecoin mania of 2024 reveals...

What is the verifiable web and what will it look like? Here, we explore web proofs (aka “zkTLS”) and its use cases. Web proofs enable cryptographic verification of data authenticity and provenance over HTTPS without requiring cooperation from centralized platforms. Zero-knowledge proofs augment web proofs with selective disclosure and privacy. We highlight diverse use cases for web proofs across four key areas: credentials, data integrity, data portability, and data monetization.

AI-driven NLIs are shifting the crypto UX from complex GUIs to conversational experiences. Autonomous linguistic financial agents (ALFAs) are starting to surface actionable insights, automate DeFi tasks, and compete for alpha. Their workflows span data synthesis, adaptive modeling, real-time inference, and action orchestration. While this could be crypto’s “ChatGPT moment,” provable utility, scalable infrastructure, and verifiability remain hurdles for adoption.

DeFi's rapid growth has introduced complexity. To address this, "agentic finance" has emerged, utilizing AI agents that act as "copilots" or "autopilots." Copilots navigate users through onchain complexities in natural language, while Autopilots aim to automate sophisticated trading strategies. Despite their potential, these agents face issues with reliability and transparency. The path forward hinges on developing verifiable infrastructure, standardized benchmarks, and safer policy structures.

Hyperliquid is evolving from a curated perp DEX into a financial infrastructure layer co-operated by its builders & traders. Here, we walk through HIP-1/2, Builder Codes, HyperEVM and HIP-3 to show how permissionless spot, perps and programmable liquidity turn HyperCore into a platform others can build exchanges on. The upside is a durable, token-aligned network across all oracle-definable markets; the risk is liquidity fragmentation and volatility risks that limit institutional participation.

Prediction markets are the foundation of a new "information finance" (InfoFi) paradigm, using financial incentives to transform speculation into high-signal, real-time data. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi demonstrate an appetite for "markets for everything," generating "data for anything." These data serve as composable inputs across applications including social media, governance, AI, and more. Challenges around liquidity and resolution are being addressed through automation and improved